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The theme of ecology.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And that is where it all
begins, the ecology of the body.

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Like Watts, in
one of his essays,

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talks about the three great
questions of the cosmos

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in any time and any place.

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Where did it all come from?

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What can we do with it?

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And who cleans up?

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[LAUGHTER]

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I think poets have always
been into ecology, though they

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didn't call it that.

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And they didn't think of it
as cleaning up the environment

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or making war on
pollution or task forces

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but rather singing reverence
for nature, for the Earth,

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for the mother, and
for all her children

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and the fish and the deer.

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It's a wonderful poem by Ralph--

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well, Rafe, he called himself--

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Rafe Hodgson, a British poet
who came to the United States,

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lived here a good many
years, and died here.

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He's not a very good poet, but
he has a few wonderful poems,

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like this one.

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"'Twould ring the
bells of heaven,

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their wildest peal in years,
if Parson lost his senses

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and people came to theirs and
all of them together knelt down

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in angry prayers for tame and
shabby tigers and dancing dogs

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and bears and wretched, blind
pit ponies and little hunted

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hares."

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